Mary Ellen Macdonald

Contact Information
Phone: 
514-398-7203
Email address: 
mary.macdonald [at] mcgill.ca
Selected publications: 

Macdonald ME, Beaudin A, Pineda C. What do patients think about dental services in Quebec? An analysis of a dentist rating website.  Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, 2015;81:f3. Available on-line: http://www.jcda.ca/article/

E Bell, Racine E, Chiasson P, Dufourcq-Brana M, Dunn LB, Fins JJ, Ford PJ, Glannon W, Lipsman N, Macdonald ME, McAndrews MP, Mathews DJH  (2014) Beyond consent in research: Revisiting vulnerability in deep brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2014,23(3),1-8.

Macdonald ME, Kennedy K, Molls S, Pineda C, Mitchell LM, Stephenson PH, Cadell S. Excluding Parental Grief: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bereavement Accommodation in Canadian Labour Standards. Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation, 50 (2015) 511–526.

Wakani L, Macdonald ME, Carnevale FA, Bernier I, Wawatie J. Diabetes Bingo! Using participatory research to tackle diabetes with the Algonquin of Barriere Lake.Pimatisiwin, A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, 2014,11(3):361-376.

Mitchell LM, Stephenson PH, Cadell S, Macdonald MEDeath and Grief on-line: Virtual Memorialization and changing concepts of childhood death and parental bereavement on the Internet. Health Sociology Review 2012; 21(4):413-431.

Lang C, Macdonald ME, Carnevale FA, Levesque MJ, Decoursay, A.Kadiminekak Kiwabigonem: Barriers and Facilitators to Fostering Community Involvement in a Prenatal Program in an Algonquin Community. Pimatisiwin, A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health, 2010 8:1: 55-81.

Steinert Y, Boillat M, Elizov M, Macdonald ME, Meterissian S, Razack S, McLeod PJ. Faculty Development: If you build it, they will come

Cerigo H, Macdonald ME, Franco E, Brassard PAwareness and knowledge about human papillomavirus among Inuit women in Nunavik, Quebec. Journal of Community Health (OnLine June 2, 2010).

Macdonald ME, Rigillo N, Brassard P. Urban Aboriginal Understandings and Experiences of Tuberculosis in Montreal, Quebec, CanadaQualitative Health Research 2010, 20(4): 506–523.

Macdonald, ME, Chilibeck, G, Affleck, W, Cadell, S. Gender Imbalance in Pediatric Palliative Care Research Samples, Palliative Medicine 2010, 24 (4) 435-444.

Steinert Y, Boudreau D, Boillat M, Slapcoff B, Dawson D, Briggs A, Macdonald METhe Osler Fellowship: An Apprenticeship for Medical Educators. Academic Medicine 2010, 85 (7): 1242-1249.

Macdonald MEGrowing Quality in Qualitative Health ResearchInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods 2009 8(2): 97-101.

Chan L, Macdonald ME, Cohen SRMoving culture beyond ethnicity: Examining dying in hospital through a cultural lens. Journal of Palliative Care, 2009, 25(2): 177-124.

Steinert Y, McLeod PJ, Boillat M, Meterissian S, Elizov M, Macdonald ME.Faculty Development: A Field of Dreams? Medical Education, 2009, 43: 42-49.

Lambert SD, Loiselle CG, Macdonald MEAn in-depth exploration of information-seeking behavior in patients with cancer. Part 1: Understanding differential patterns of active information-seeking. Cancer Nursing, 2009, 32(1): 11-23.

Macdonald ME, Liben S, Carnevale FA, Cohen SR. Signs of Life and Signs of Death: Brain Death and Other Mixed Messages at the End-Of-Life. Journal of Child Health Care 2008 12(2):93-106.

Macdonald ME, Carnevale F. Qualitative Health Research and the IRB: Answering the “So What?” with Qualitative InquiryJournal of Academic Ethics 2008.

Boudreau DJ, Jagosh J, Slee R, Macdonald ME, Steinert Y. Patient perspectives on physicians’ roles: Implications for Curricular ReformAcademic Medicine, 2008, 83(8): 744-753.

Shrier I, Boivin JF, Platt R, Steele RJ, Brophy J, Carnevale FA, Eisenberg MJ, Furlan A, Kakuma R, Macdonald ME, Pilote L, Rossignol M. The Interpretation of Meta-Analyses: An Objective or Subjective Process? BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2008, 8:19.

Brassard P Anderson KK, Schwartzman K, Macdonald ME, Menzies D.Challenges to tuberculin screening and follow-up in an urban Aboriginal sample in Montreal, Canada. Journal of the Poor and Underserved 2008: 19(2)

Macdonald ME, Carnevale F. Qualitative Health Research and the IRB: Answering the “So What?” with Qualitative InquiryJournal of Academic Ethics 2008.

Carnevale FA, Macdonald ME, Bluebond-Langner M, McKeever P. Using participant observation in pediatric health care settings: ethical challenges and solutions. Journal of Child Health Care 2008;12(1):18-32.

Brassard P, Anderson KK, Schwartzman K, Menzies D, Macdonald ME. Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Tuberculosis Among a Sample of Urban Aboriginal People.  Journal of Community Health 2008 (33)

Macdonald ME, Murray MA. The Appropriateness of Appropriate?: Smuggling Values into Clinical Practice. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research (Special Issue: Ethics, Values, and Decision-Making) 2008: 39(4): 58-73

Macdonald ME, Carnevale FA, Razack S. (2007) Understanding What Residents Want and What Residents Need: The Challenge of Cultural Training in Pediatrics. Medical Teacher 29: 464–471

Macdonald ME, Liben S, Cohen SR. Truth and Consequences: Parental Perspectives on Autopsy after the Death of a Child, Pediatric Intensive Care Nursing 2006 7(1): 6-15.

Macdonald ME, Liben S, Carnevale FA, Rennick JE, Wolf SL, Meloche D, Cohen SR. Parental Perspectives on Hospital Staff Acts of Kindness and Commemoration after a Child's Death. Pediatrics, 2005, 116: 884-890

Macdonald ME. (2002) Writing at the Margins to Bring Suffering to the Centre. Transcultural Psychiatry 2002 39(4): 551-560.

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